“20 years per ECRA violation; 10 years per smuggling count; and 20 years per money laundering count”
…and they each are being accused of multiples of them. The argument for doing it like this is that even if they later get some of the charges dropped they will still stay in prison without the need to do any retrials etc to figure out how long it should now be.
The massive downside is that you easily stack different violations like this and end up in jail for life.
Those weird numbers of years always confuse me. 200 years? Do you expect anyone to live that long?
No. The sentenced are simply cumulative:
…and they each are being accused of multiples of them. The argument for doing it like this is that even if they later get some of the charges dropped they will still stay in prison without the need to do any retrials etc to figure out how long it should now be.
The massive downside is that you easily stack different violations like this and end up in jail for life.